Sunday, 26 July 2015
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Wtf?!
That moment when your doctor tells you your Free Thyroxine (FT4) used to be over 100 pmol/L*. The resident treating me couldn't tell me how much, actually. Probably because the lab techs ragequit after they reached a count of 100.
How am I still alive and sane?
* Normal ranges: Anywhere between 8 and 24 or so. 100 is ridiculous.
How am I still alive and sane?
* Normal ranges: Anywhere between 8 and 24 or so. 100 is ridiculous.
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Self-doctoring..
.. can be useful!
But only if you know what you're doing! :P
I got my earlobes pierced (a second earring piercing in each hole) several months ago, and initially, they healed up quite nicely.
Only just a few weeks ago, I noticed that one of my earlobes had started to grow a small smooth bump. No lymph, no crusting, just a small bump about half a centimeter in diameter.
It wasn't warm or an inflamed red or something, and there was no blood or pus either, so I really doubted that it could've been an inflammation or infection (besides, it's kind of late for the pierces to suddenly get infected now).
So there was only one thing I could come up with: keloids, also known as hypertrophic, ugly-as-hell, overgrown scar tissue.
If you're a person with a splash of colour on your skin (read: African/Asian/Hispanic/Mediterranean), you're a bit more likely to form keloids compared to white people.
Since I'm Asian, I belong to this unlucky group as well.
I didn't like the thought of having a keloid grow on the back of my earlobe, so I had to find a way to get rid of it (preferably without having a doctor tell me to take out the earrings and to have surgery done on my earlobes).
Luckily for me, I managed to dig up some topical steroid cream, which may or may not have encouraged the bump to disappear.
It's becoming smaller again, so maybe topical steroid creams can help against keloid formation, or maybe it wasn't a keloid at all.
Either way, I'm happy about my bump starting to disappear again.
So yeah. Topical steroids may have worked for me, but please don't go and buy the stuff to get rid of your own keloids without discussing it with your doctor.
I'm not responsible for the shit that might happen when you try to pull the same stunt I did.
But only if you know what you're doing! :P
I got my earlobes pierced (a second earring piercing in each hole) several months ago, and initially, they healed up quite nicely.
Only just a few weeks ago, I noticed that one of my earlobes had started to grow a small smooth bump. No lymph, no crusting, just a small bump about half a centimeter in diameter.
It wasn't warm or an inflamed red or something, and there was no blood or pus either, so I really doubted that it could've been an inflammation or infection (besides, it's kind of late for the pierces to suddenly get infected now).
So there was only one thing I could come up with: keloids, also known as hypertrophic, ugly-as-hell, overgrown scar tissue.
If you're a person with a splash of colour on your skin (read: African/Asian/Hispanic/Mediterranean), you're a bit more likely to form keloids compared to white people.
Since I'm Asian, I belong to this unlucky group as well.
I didn't like the thought of having a keloid grow on the back of my earlobe, so I had to find a way to get rid of it (preferably without having a doctor tell me to take out the earrings and to have surgery done on my earlobes).
Luckily for me, I managed to dig up some topical steroid cream, which may or may not have encouraged the bump to disappear.
It's becoming smaller again, so maybe topical steroid creams can help against keloid formation, or maybe it wasn't a keloid at all.
Either way, I'm happy about my bump starting to disappear again.
So yeah. Topical steroids may have worked for me, but please don't go and buy the stuff to get rid of your own keloids without discussing it with your doctor.
I'm not responsible for the shit that might happen when you try to pull the same stunt I did.
Monday, 6 July 2015
Post-class/internship/godknowswhat essays..
That moment when you're pretty much done with exams and lectures, and such and so classes want you to write an essay before the end of the academical year..
| Class: LET ME LOVE YOU! |
Me: LEAVE ME ALONE! *Runs*
Thursday, 2 July 2015
That moment..
When you don't have to actively look for a job and sollicit for one,
but someone actually wants you to come work for them.
And it's actually an interesting job with decent pay too.
but someone actually wants you to come work for them.
And it's actually an interesting job with decent pay too.
Fuck yeah.
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